Then there's also the question of who even counts as a celebrity in the first place. US television personality David Gest, for example, did not get a BBC obituary. Nonetheless, now that December has arrived, it seems an appropriate time to ask - has 2016 continued to be so dangerous and fateful for famous people? In actual fact, Serpell says, it hasn't. "The last six months of this year were broadly in line with the previous last six months of the previous four or five years," Serpell says. "So we didn't see that spike continuing throughout the 12 months." Image copyright AP Across the whole